Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-08-20
OF Louisville, and he Is keeping register. In an
average game the number OF balls pitched Is over

average game the number Of balls pitched is over
two hundred.
Paul Hines goes on regularly smuggling the bali
AS long as he gets his salary regularly and pleases
his manager he needn't fret at the newspapers
Farrar seems to have great luck in running
bases OF late. Twice, recently, his rashness has
called forth "Oh, Sid! sid! what are you doing7"
box, but in each case Farrar was safe.
The Detroit club has elegant quarters for its
men. The club house is divided up into rooms,
try treats It's men any BETTER and they have every
incentive to induce good bali playing.
Thursday. They had but one actual hit OF him.
On his nrst appearance at the bat his PfttSourg
friends presented him with ahandsome gold watch
Manager Fogel Of the Indianapolis Club, thinks
hts Allentown friends acted in very dishonorable
that player blacklisted. F0gel claims that Beatin
promised 70 give Indianapolis the preference II he
The Boston management have practically COM
pleted arrangements for the building OF new
grand stand. The structure will be built by the
aGcnlteGt OF the Philadelphia grand stand It VIII
structure will be $4,000.
The Boston base ,ballists had better get Mr..
Burgess, the designer OF the Volunteer, TO con-
struct nine that Will go. Boston has dropped to
fourth place In the league and the yachting halo
that surrounds the Hub wears fringe OF base ball
The league players who have made 100 or more
actual hits number fifteen. They are Ward, al
ITO; Wise, ITO; Rowe, 1O9; Kelly, 166; Richard.
son, 1O4; Ryan, 1O3; Common, 1O2; Arson; 101 i;
Wood, lOl; Nash, 1O1; Morrill,, loo.
The Boston management have offered s., 500 to
be divided between the players at the end OF the
season, and benefit game to be played at the end
OF the season, the receipts also TO be divided
the pennant to the Hub in october.
WHAT team Whitney and Burlington would
here now as they did in 1ssa Money could not buy
either now. Every brilliant performance they
make adds to the poignant grief OF the Boston d.
The indianapolis directors have decided to re-
move their present grand stand and build fine
doube-decker at the northeast side OF the grounds
ana ut 1t up In elegant style. There Will be q
number OF private boxes and the stand will be
fitted with folding opera chalrs.-Erchange.
70 ~ bney was 4th
Daily, 42d; O'Brien, 18TH; Myers, 47th; ShOch.
49th; Dealey, 51st; Krieg, seth; Shaw, 6lst; Far
rel, Oath; G1ulgan, 67th; DOnnelly, 73d; O'Day,
18th; Mack, sist, and Gilmore, s4th, among lis
batSmen.
In the batting and base-running contest between
the players OF the Boston team, Wise leads the
batSmen, with Nash second, and Kelly third. In
DaSe-running Wheelock leads, BurdOck second,
Nash third; Wise has made the greatest number
OF hits, and Kelly has stolen the greatest number
OF bases.
Anent the Boston-New York game Of Tuesday:
"GOOd ump1rtng, OF which nobody could COM
plain."-Ne,0 York World special. 1.-THE umpir-
Ing was again disgraceful; he virtually presented
the last two games to the GiantS."-BostOn Asso-
c1dted Press dispatch. You pays your money and
takes your choice.
New York has been blanked but once; Detroit
once; Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington
and P1ttSbulg twice each, aud lthe Indianapolis
tive times. Philadelphia has shut out league clubs
four times, New York and Pittsburg three times,
Boston, Washington and Indianapolis twice each,
Chicago once and Detroit none.
The cuban Giants have originated O new plan in
the batting order OF the team which is claimed to
every game played the player making the greatest
number OF base hits leads the batting order for
the next game, and the player coming next to
Big Jim Davis, with whom Barnie has had so
much trouble this season, has been indefinitely
suspended by the latter. Davis loses $225 a
month until he Is reinStated. He claims tnat he
has been doing his best, but has been under the
weather recently. 1t Is said that the New York
league club wants him. Davis would like either
to get away from Baltimore or TO he reinstated.
JnO. b. Day Is quoted as saying TO the Indian
apOlis club directors: "YOu have good, live
manager In Fogel and he Will give you winning
team next year II he has his own way. My advice
Is TO go right ahead strengthening the team, re-
CARELESS OF money. There will be no danger OF
claimed that majority OF the league club presi-
dents have assured the Indianapolis club that they
will not be ousted from the league next season.
A pOeIical admirer or "thein PhillieS' at Lam
caster, bubbling over with their recent great
cess, breaks into this glad melody through the
Intelligencer:
Play ball. brave Phillies, show your might!
Your hearts are true; your cause is Wright!
Close up Your ranks I'LL every breach!
Till you glorious victory Reach!
On to the front! NOW down like grass
The baked bean team Of Boston, Mass!
Vie ss ws xG SI.Ss q in0'E sksh
Then grapple with your matchless skill
The champions of Chicago, Ill
And having whipped them you wish
Wrest victory from the Detroit, Mich!
And bear the pennant safe away
To dear old Phil-s- del phi-a!
The Boston Globe in its account OF Wednesdays
game says: "GilmOre pitched a splendid game,
striking out nine men and retiring two on foul
tips, and even with his w1ldness would have won
had he received the support he had right to ex-
pect. Mack gave him magnificent support, but
fatal. Gilmore's effectiveness Is amply proved by
| the fact that the BOstOns had ten men left on
bases-two on third, i've on second, and three on
first base The BOStOnS certainly played In luck
Out OF eleven errors they made only two affected
| the score, and the six errors OF their opponents
came In Just at the right time The Washingtons